Diet at a besieged Embassy

[bogeyman]

“We have one meal a day, consisting of rice and pasta alternately. We still have quite a lot of tins of tuna and a few of frankfurters, plus a lot of spices, mostly taken from the servants’ quarters.


“Unfortunately we are very short of onions, though we do have garlic, and have only a few tins of tomatoes and tomato paste. We have a little powdered milk left and ‘gram’ powder made from chickpeas, I think, so I can make white sauces. We have used up all our ordinary flour, which means I can no longer make bread, as I did in the early days.”


The besieged diplomat reported that curried tuna and tuna lasagne were both popular, and so was crab in cheese sauce: “Curried frankfurter is rather less so, though ‘sausage chasseur’ is accepted.”

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...food-diplomats

Between 1990 and 1991 Iraq invaded Kuwait, besieged, British diplomats tried to hold out, the Chablis had all gone, the carver had gone off, and the turkey had done a runner....so it was good old tuna, tinned tomatoes, and herbs and spices save the day, at least the cutlery was still intact.